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No, LLMs are not used (nor would they be allowed). As for whether you would consider OCR to be AI, then... possibly?

Sorry for the question but how behind are the LLMs in terms of quality for something like this?

I can't really answer that because I haven't actually tried to use an LLM on any part of the process. The vast majority of the process is semantic markup using (x)html and proofreading. The markup process could, I guess, use an LLM, but most of it is already automated using regex and linting.

Does it use any automation?

My bro-in-law supported his family as a freelance editor for years while my sister was doing the "maternity leave" thing so I know there's a non-trivial amount of work that goes into book editing. Cutting out some of that human labor seems like a good thing for a volunteer project.

there is quite a lot of automated changes using standard ebooks open source tools package

the vast majority of textual tooling is regex-galore, but there is also automated epub tooling in there too

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